Rashmi is a PhD scholar at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).

Rashmi has a Master’s in Environmental Studies and Resource Management from TERI School of Advanced Studies. Her research work has mainly focused on looking at water demands by different sectors. Rashmi’s research interests include sustainable water management and anthropogenic effects on water resources.Rashmi is currently a part of the urban lakes initiative and is doing her PhD work on stakeholder-driven modeling to understand human water coupled systems by using the lakes of Bangalore as a case study.